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Thymopentin
Thymopentin (TP-5), Arg-Lys-Asp-Val-Tyr, a synthetic pentapeptide matching amino acids 32-36 of thymopoietin; immunomodulator enhancing T-cell production, studied in HIV, tuberculosis, and eczema, never FDA-approved.
Thymosin
Thymosin: family of thymus-derived polypeptide hormones named in 1966 by Goldstein and White. Key members are thymosin alpha-1 (Zadaxin, sepsis and hepatitis studies, not FDA-approved) and thymosin beta-4 (actin-binding, wound healing, WADA-prohibited).
Thymulin
Thymulin, formerly known as FTS, is a zinc-dependent nonapeptide hormone produced by thymic epithelial cells that promotes T cell differentiation, discovered by French immunologists in the 1970s.